This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... By the passage of the Polar star over the meridian, the magnetic variation at Ank5bar was observed, with the aid of a well-regulated chronometer, to be 7 westerly. The longitude was determined both by a series of lunars, and by the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites; the mean of upwards of 150 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... By the passage of the Polar star over the meridian, the magnetic variation at Ank5bar was observed, with the aid of a well-regulated chronometer, to be 7 westerly. The longitude was determined both by a series of lunars, and by the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites; the mean of upwards of 150 observations being taken. bibliography of works relating to abyssinia. and tracts which have been published upon that country. De Eitu e moribua ftidorniav G. L. A tract commencing "Preapiter Johaues amico suo Emanueli Bome Gubernatori salute, &o. Eichstadt, 1478 (?).-!. Another edition was printed at Venice, 1480. Le Prestre Jehan at end "Cy finent la diversity dcs homines, dos beatea, dua oyBeaux qui eont en la terre do Prostre Johan." Rouen, 1506. 4to. Narratio Dk Ethiopia. Johannes Potkenina. Rome, 1513. Etiopieo Alfabeto en la langue Gleez Geez volgarmente llamada Caldea, en lengua i lotra Etiopa. Por Monge Pedro. 1518. 4to. I.j; Navegationi per 1'Oceano alle Terre di Negri de la Basaa Ethiopia, &e. j da A. Vesputio. Milan, 1519. Fol. Legatio Hagni Ebisaini Imperatoria Presbytori Johannia, ad Emmanuelem, Lasitanioj rogem. Antverpice, 1531. Second edition, Dordraci, 1618. Kris 1'mi i. duiB.--Davidis ad Clementem Septimum. Anno Domini 1533 dcssinata;, cum orticalia quibusdam do fide et moribus (Ethiopum Christianornm, &c. See Amandus of Ficrikzee Chronica compendioaissima ad exordia mnndi, &o. 1534. 8vo. Leoatio David thiopia) Regia, ad Clementem PapA vii. una cam obedientia eidem Sanctisa, D. N. pneatita. Sononice, 1533..t.-Another edition--Antverpice, 1534. 12mo. Another edition--Antverpiae, 1534. 8vo. Bothschaft des Koenigs David aua dem Morenland, den man gemeinlich nennt Priester Johan, au Pabst Clemena vii. Leipsic, 1534. 4to. L'Aii
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